USS Roosevelt (DDG-80)
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Roosevelt |
| Namesake | Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt |
| Ordered | 6 January 1995 |
| Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
| Laid down | 15 December 1997 |
| Launched | 10 January 1999 |
| Commissioned | 14 October 2000 |
| Motto | Leadership, Truth, Loyalty |
| Status | Template:Ship fate box active in service |
| Badge |  |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Arleigh Burke class destroyer |
| Displacement | 9,200 long tons (9,300 t) |
| Length | 509 ft 6 in (155.30 m) |
| Beam | 66 ft (20 m) |
| Draught | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
| Propulsion | 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW) |
| Speed | >30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
| Complement | 380 officers and enlisted |
| Armament | list error: <br /> list (help) 1 x 32 cell, 1 x 64 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 96 x RIM-66M SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, missiles 1 x 5/54 in /(127/54 mm), 2 x 25 mm, 4 x 12.7 mm guns, 2 x Phalanx CIWS 2 x Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes |
| Aircraft carried | 2 x SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters |
The USS Roosevelt (DDG-80) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. The Roosevelt is the second Flight IIA ship and the last US Navy destroyer to carry the 5"/54 Mk. 45 mod 3 gun.
On 22 October 1996, the Secretary of the Navy, John H. Dalton, named the 30th ship of the Arleigh Burke-class, the Roosevelt. This is the first ship so named to honor both Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States and the former First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt. (The aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42) served from 1945-1977 before being scrapped.)
On Tuesday, 4 April 2006, the USS Roosevelt and the Dutch frigate HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën attempted to intercept a hijacked South Korean trawler off the coast of Somalia. However, both the Roosevelt and De Zeven Provinciën were forced to disengage in the pursuit because the pirates threated the trawler's crew with firearms. The hijacked trawler escaped into Somali territorial waters.
On 16 February 2007, the Roosevelt was awarded the 2006 Battle Efficiency "E" award. [1]
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